{"id":221877,"date":"2016-02-29T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=221877"},"modified":"2016-02-29T06:00:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T20:00:22","slug":"minors-need-written-consent-for-tattoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/minors-need-written-consent-for-tattoos\/","title":{"rendered":"Minors need written consent for tattoos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under a new law, persons under the age of 18 are prohibited from getting a tattoo without the written consent of the parent or legal guardian.<\/p>\n<p>Acting governor Francisco Borja signed last week Senate Bill 19-5, HD2, which sets a fine of not more than $1,000 to those convicted of unlawfully tattooing a minor.<\/p>\n<p>The new law mandates \u201cconsent of a minor\u2019s parent or legal guardian\u201d to mean the present of a parent or legal guardian during the performance of the tattoo\u2014after\u2014the parent or legal guardian has provided identification and proof of familial relationship, and a written permission signed by the parent of legal guardian to authorize the tattoo.<\/p>\n<p>The bill states that tattoos are a form of art with which one expresses themselves but that minors \u201cmay not be mature enough to make such a decision\u201d and may be left with \u201cpermanent scars on their bodies and potentially be exposed to infectious disease if tattooed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is highly inappropriate for any person under the age of eighteen to be covered in tattoo,\u201d the bill states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA minor\u2019s future career may also be affected by tattoos if they plan to join the U.S. military,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under a new law, persons under the age of 18 are prohibited from getting a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3117,200,1411],"class_list":["post-221877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-francisco-borja","tag-military","tag-senate-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}